Publications

Books

• A Cultural History of Tragedy, ed. vol. 4 1650-1800 (Bloomsbury/Methuen, 2019)
• Des Corps Baroques: Sexualité et Politique au 17ème siècle (Classiques Garnier, 2019)
• Racine: From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
• Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and The Culture of French Absolutism (Cornell University Press, 2001)
• Canonical States, Canonical Stages: Oedipus, Othering and Seventeenth-Century Drama (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)
• Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth Century Drama and Prose: The Family Romance of French Classicism (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
• Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
• Detours of Desire: Readings in the French Baroque (Ohio State University Press, 1984)

Select Articles

• “La mort comme héros dans les tragédies de Corneille” in Héros et Personnages, ed. M. Dufour-Maitre, Presses des Universités Rouen-Le Havre (PURH), 2014.
• “Corneille et la Mort Absolue” in Japanese. Special issue the Acts of the International Corneille conference  “L’Univers théâtral de Corneille," held at Sophia University, Tokyo, Nov. 9-11, 2006, pp.222-240, edited by H. Ogura, Tokyo, Sophia University Press, 2010.
• “La modernité de Racine" in La littérature, le xviie siècle et nous: dialogue transatlantique, ed. H. Merlin, Paris: Presse de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008. pp.269-283.
• “Corneille/Racine: French Neo-Classical Tragedy” in A Companion to Tragedy, ed. R. Bushnell, (Oxford, Blackwell) 2005.
• “Molière’s Body Politic” in High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France, edited by K. Long (Kirksville, Truman State Universtiy Press, 2002) pp. 139-165.
• “Racine, Tragedy and Absolutist  Fantasies.” Diacritics, vol 28, Fall 1998, pp. 40-62.
• “Racine’s Oedipus.” L’Esprit Créateur, edited by H. Stone, Summer, l998, pp. 105-117.
• “Molière: Corpus Politicum”  Le Labyrinthe de Versailles: Festschrift in Honor of A. Eustis, ed. M. Debaisieux, Rodopi, Paris, l998, pp. 85-101.
• "Absolutism and Androgyny: the Abbé de Choisy and the Politics of Trompe-l’oeil" in Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early Modern Culture, eds. T. Murray, A. Smith, University of Minnesota Press, 1998,  pp.221-260.
• “Molière’s Tartuffe  and the Scandal of Insight”  in Literature and Criticism From 1400- 1800, ed. by J. Person, Gale Research, l996. Reprinted  from Subjectivity and Subjugation... (Cambridge University Press, l992).